As promised, here are a few reads that stayed with me over the years. Not because they were “nice books”. But because each one left a fingerprint on how I think, feel, and move through life. Psycho-Cybernetics (Maxwell Maltz) This one taught me that self image runs everything. If you keep “seeing yourself” as the person who quits, procrastinates, or disappoints, you will keep living that loop. Change the inner picture, and behavior starts to follow. The Untethered Soul (Michael A. Singer) Big reminder: you are not the voice in your head. You are the one who hears it. When I really started practicing that, the mental noise lost a lot of power. The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) I read this while traveling in Thailand and I applied it immediately. It was honestly bizarre how quickly you can feel the difference when you stop living inside “later” or “what if” and return to the present. It was one of the first times I experienced peace as something practical, not philosophical. The Expectation Effect (David Robson) This gave me a grounded, research-backed way to understand something we all feel: what you expect shapes what you experience. He uses practical examples and data around placebo and nocebo effects, where positive expectations can improve outcomes and negative expectations can worsen them. Mastery (Robert Greene) This book helped me connect the dots back to childhood. Greene argues your “Life’s Task” often leaves clues early on, in what you were naturally drawn to before the world told you what was “useful.” What hit me most is how many masters went through a real shift after years of apprenticeship. A phase where they stopped copying and started experimenting, and something more intuitive and original switched on. He uses biographies of people like Darwin and Einstein to show that pattern. Reality Transurfing (Vadim Zeland) This one goes deeper for me than “just think positive.” The idea that stuck is reducing “importance.” The more you overcharge a goal with pressure, identity, or desperation, the more you create inner tension and weird resistance. Another concept is “pendulums,” basically dramas or group energies that try to hook your attention. When you stop feeding them with emotional charge, you get your energy back and you move cleaner.

About 10 days ago, a coach that works with neurodivergent entrepreneurs was being coached about Tiny Challenges. I have no idea what she said that made me think about it, but everything I've learned in the last 10 days about inattentive ADHD explains my whole life. Here are the opening paragraphs of my Snapshot. THE MIRROR You said something that most people spend their whole lives never daring to admit: "I was getting scared I may, as the saying goes, die with my music inside me." Here is what lives underneath those words. For 68 years you have carried two verdicts at the same time. One came from your father - "broken," "destined to fail at everything you ever do." The other was your own, quieter and more stubborn: I know I'm capable. I have something real in me. The fear of dying with your music inside isn't the fear that the music isn't there. It's the fear that you'll never get to prove it was real - to yourself, and to a man who is gone but whose voice still runs the audit in your head. You never stopped believing. That is the tragedy and the hope in the very same breath.

I honestly can't remember the last time I had a bad day. But yesterday was the day. It didn't arrive with a bang. It crept in. I wanted to take it easy, do nothing for once, and within an hour the nothing turned into boredom. Out of that boredom I started snacking on stuff I knew would make me feel worse, and it did, almost instantly. Then I picked up my phone and started scrolling. Ten minutes in I was completely dopamine-depleted. Empty. Like someone had quietly unplugged me. So I did what I tell other people not to do. I reached for more of the same. I opened a video game. The last time I did that was December 2024. More than a year and a half ago. I didn't realize that until I was already sitting there like a zombie, not even enjoying it. Funny how the brain reaches for the exact habit it used to lean on when it's hurting. While I was sitting there feeling nothing, I looked at the community. It's been growing like crazy. Yesterday we hit number 9 in Discovery across the entire Skool platform!! I looked at the number and felt nothing. And for a split second i even thought, why am i even doing this? What's the point? Rationally I knew that was nonsense. I knew it in the moment. But knowing something does absolutely nothing for the way you feel when you're in it. You can be self-aware and still stuck. Awareness alone doesn't pull you out. So I stood up. I walked to the window and just stared outside for a while. I was thinking of two options. One was easy: crawl into bed, pull the curtains, and let the day get worse. Sink deeper into it. The other one I couldn't even see the end of. It just meant doing one thing, any thing. 2024 me would've picked option 1, but.. I just looked for the smallest possible action and DID IT. I walked over to my bed and grabbed my Eight Sleep, the mattress that regulates my temperature at night so I actually get deep sleep. Amazing thing by the way, even if it's stupidly expensive. Next to it was the filter. It had been sitting on my nightstand for three months. I kept walking past it, telling myself it was a whole job, that I'd get to it later. I finally swapped it. It took ten seconds. Ten seconds. And it gave me this tiny, real hit of dopamine.

Read this one fully. It closes soon and might not come back free. Yep for real... the entire ADHD Harmony 5-Day Challenge is unlocked in the classroom. Every lesson, replay, exercise, plus your personal Harmony AI transformation report. Over 1,000 people have already gone through this. For some it was small shifts. For others it completely reinvented their life. And I keep getting messages from people who missed the last round. So instead of letting that door close, I'm opening it wide. This is for two kinds of people: 1. You're new here and you want a real starting point, not another productivity app 2. You've been in this community for weeks or months, kept meaning to start, and never did Either way, this is your moment. Here's what you'll actually walk through: 🐟 Day 1: The truth about your brain (you're not broken, you're a fish asked to climb trees) 🎭 Day 2: The invisible cage (the masks you wear, and who you really are underneath) 💻 Day 3: Rewriting your internal code (the limiting beliefs running in the background) 🌊 Day 4: The harmony reset (simple body protocols that genuinely change your days) 🧭 Day 5: What you're built for (your ikigai, plus your full AI transformation report) ✨ Day 6: The bonus day where everything comes together ⏳ The honest part: this stays open not for long. It may come back as a paid program. So if you've been telling yourself "I'll do it later," later is officially now. 20 days, then it's gone for a while. 🏆 NEW: Weekly leaderboard giveaway Every Friday I'm giving away up to $100 in community credits to the top 10 members on the 7-day leaderboard. How points work: you earn 1 point for every like on your posts, comments, and replies. So show up, share your wins from the challenge, support other people, and you climb. The best part: the leaderboard resets every 7 days. So even if you have 0 points right now, every single week is a brand new shot. First winners announced next Friday. (Translation: do the challenge AND post your reflections = transformation plus a real chance to win. Stacked.)